In-depth. Resourceful. Innovative.

The nation’s most talented journalism students come together in Carnegie-Knight News21 to report and produce in-depth, multimedia projects for major national media. News21 shows the kind of work that journalism students are capable of doing and is helping reshape the news industry.

Latest News21 investigations

2017

After interviewing hundreds of individuals and collecting thousands of pages of state and federal statutes and records, News21 found as many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade. Twenty-nine journalism students from 18 universities took part in the project, which included a 30-minute documentary and numerous long-form stories.

2016

In the lead up to the 2016 elections, News21 examined voting laws in all 50 states. The fellows tallied dozens of new voting laws and found that laws were nine times more likely to be passed by Republican-led legislatures than those controlled by Democrats. Thirty-one students from 18 universities traveled to 31 states for the investigation with more than 100 media properties will publish portions of the investigation.

2015

As the debate for the legalization of marijuana heated up, News21 fellows traveled across the country to report on the politics, regulation and science behind the nation’s marijuana movement. The 27 journalism students from 19 universities uncovered wide disparities in the enforcement of state marijuana laws, a lack of federally funded scientific marijuana research, illegal growers and sellers in nearly every state.